Description

Kien’s job is to search the Jungle of Screaming Souls for corpses. He knows the area well – this was where, in the dry season of 1969, his battalion was obliterated by American napalm and helicopter gunfire. Kien was one of only ten survivors. This book is his attempt to understand the eleven years of his life he gave to a senseless war. Based on true experiences of Bao Ninh and banned by the communist party, this novel is revered as the ‘All Quiet on the Western Front for our era’.

Additional information

Weight 0.173 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.7 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

240

Publisher

Year Published

1994-10-17

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

074939711X

20 years on, [it] had an even greater impact on me than it did first time around… It is a remarkable and important novel

Other text

The Sorrow of War vaults over all the American fiction that came out of the Vietnam war to take its place alongside the greatest war novel of the century, All Quiet on the Western Front. And this is to understate its qualities for, unlike All Quiet, it is a novel abut much more than war. A book about writing, about lost youth, it is also a beautiful agonising love story… a magnificent achievement